About pet or summoning classes: I know the rumors, but...

[Rutelor]

...are they correct? Is it true that Final Fantasy XIV will definitely not include any pet or summoning classes? I was hoping they meant no pet/summoning for a while...! I left my Summoner half-way leveled in FFXI, thinking that I would be able to retake the job-type in this game. From my perspective, this would be an enormously frustrating limitation for the game, if it were so. What about Puppetmaster? Or Beastmaster?

What exactly has been officially said about this, if anything at all? Developer, or moderator feedback would be greatly appreciated.

And what does the player-base think about this issue? In case the rumors I've heard are correct, should we start a petition for the inclusion of said class types?

Also, would it be possible for anybody to provide web links to what everybody (but me) seems to know about what the devs have said on this point, please?

Rute

[quantumsaint]

The devs during Tanaka's time said there wouldn't be pet classes at launch, because they wanted to balance the other classes first, but they would make their way into the game eventually. Yoshi hasn't said anything about pet classes so far, AFAIK.

Would be nice to hear an update, or what their current plans are regarding pet classes.

[aizer]

we wont be getting job system for a while yet, so cant see a pet type class till after that i would guess,

[Rutelor]

we wont be getting job system for a while yet, so cant see a pet type class till after that i would guess,

Yes, but I don't want to guess. I want to know for sure whether it will happen, and, more or less, what direction they are considering. I'm not asking for specifics; only general pointers to assuage my fears that it won't happen at all.

[Estellios]

They have expressed their intent to make pets and pet classes, but not much else besides that that isn't chocobo-related.

For summoner the reason it might not appear in-game is due to storyline reasons and how the summons themselves are presented in this game, compared to other FF games.

[Delmontyb]

Yes, but I don't want to guess. I want to know for sure whether it will happen, and, more or less, what direction they are considering. I'm not asking for specifics; only general pointers to assuage my fears that it won't happen at all.

Yoshi-P has already confirmed that they are coming, but hasn't given a date. This was before 1.18, so I don't know when we will see this type of class/job in the game, it might not be in this year, but we will get pet classes.

[Rutelor]

They have expressed their intent to make pets and pet classes, but not much else besides that that isn't chocobo-related.

For summoner the reason it might not appear in-game is due to storyline reasons and how the summons themselves are presented in this game, compared to other FF games.

I must confess I'm not that familiar with the lore, and therefore ignore aspects of the it that would make SMN improbable as a class. Would you mind elaborating, so that there's a discussion here of whether this should remain so?

[Jennestia]

Current lore is a class or job like SMN simply can't exist because of the current storyline. Pet classes like Beastmaster or uh say, Shepard could exist but they won't introduce them for a very long while.

[Griss]

actually jennestia according to the the story summoning is very possible. Its a very dangerous thing as it "comes at a massive cost on the summoner in terms of body mind and spirit". wish i could go rewatch the r36 stuff to get the actual phrase used.

the same cs hints that it will not be the primals that we will get to call as well.

[Jennestia]

actually jennestia according to the the story summoning is very possible. Its a very dangerous thing as it "comes at a massive cost on the summoner in terms of body mind and spirit". wish i could go rewatch the r36 stuff to get the actual phrase used.

the same cs hints that it will not be the primals that we will get to call as well.

Exactly, when linked with how summoner is generally implemented, the current storyline disallows for players to become summoners. Generally a summoner is one that calls forth an image/avatar of one of the beasts, however the current beasts are the Primals, which we can't summon. So we need more story in order to make such a class possible, because it has to explain how we can get around all of these blocks.

They did it with FFXI 3 times (Summoning is forbidden magic, #1, Fenrir kills you as you summon it but he will always be a part of you, #2, Diabolos tried to kill you off, but ended up lending you his power, #3) so we have to wait for the story to progress more as well as side storylines in order to make a class like Summoner actually work.